Qmail not receving? This is strange...

[TheDust]

We had one user who stopped receiving email this morning. I verified this and after a server restart he started receiving email OK again. However the emails during that downtime are nowhere. There are NO emails in qmail's queue and they didn't get bounced back.

So what HAPPENED to these emails?

 

[thedaver]

Are you using quotas? Did the user delete some mail and the reboot is a red herring coincidence?

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[TheDust]

No quotas being used and the user didn't delete this emails... they just never got delivered. Lost in transit, it would seem.

 

[thedaver]

Could have been a bad spot on the disk or a map mapping to include the user's home/Maildir?

Your symptom is consistent with successful delivery to /dev/null

Normally your queue would have told you something.

Obviously someone could have monkey'd with the .qmail-user file or an alias and have mis-delivered or /dev/null'd the email as well. Although that's less likely if the reboot alone fixed it.

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